Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.